Gentlemen from Jagatdal play here. The way Hari kundu(Harida) & Somnath(Somnath Mitra) gives way to others, is to be seen to be believed.As a matter of fact, the original group in this train consisted of Bholada(Ashok Mitra),Jayanta Chatterjee, Gopal Bose, Kalipada Kundu, N.Bhowmik(Nantuda).When Nantuda left, kunduda sidelined himself to give Ranjan Banerjee & Myself a chance to prove ourselves.However within a few years most changed their schedule & the playground was up for sale.The Jagatdal group was unwilling to buy though Netaida, Ramda, Halderda and few others were homeless--I mean groundless at that time.Ultimately the playground was grabbed by Rabibabu & co. who, we believed,  quite mistakenly, disliked the game.

When new & promising players like Champak Bhattacharya, Nisith Joarder & others entered the fray, a new ground was created . But the additional stoppage at Dumdum & later at Ultadanga compressed the ground so much as to make wing play very difficult.Even a good unzipping technique could not solve the problem. Now the players from shyamnagar are totally dependent on Harida & co.for getting short term lease of their ground.

At Kalyani Super,however, the scene is different & the syndicate rules supreme here.No mortal could challenge Bisu Dutta  his right to stand under the fan the others make hey while the dutta shines.The rivalry between Biswasda(the great Barun Biswas) & Dutta/Kar combination surpasses the one between Culburtson & Lenz.Though Asim Kar is no match for Barun Biswas, Sujit Bose , as an anti-partner of biswasda, makes the battle very close.By the way,Ashu Babu alias Tulsida  alias Suranjan Aich appears from time to time to stake his ancesterial claim in the field. But ,I can tell you fou sure that Biswasda smacks his lip when he sees him.

Then there is Tojuda & Buroda.Sensible though the former is a better player simply because he learnt a vital thing during his glorious football days--Discipline.

Buroda,very intelligent though,suffers from a drawback.That is, he tries to outwit his opponents--but in that process his partner in caught unaware.

A lazy,but promising player-BHAI- comes quite often.I once mistook him for a person of contract bridge calibre(The same mistake I did with Somnath Mitra of 9.50 Shantipur).But he is a good kibitzer.

Then there is Motida. Moti talukder. A Genius .But for whose advice to keep  root of white sandal with me, I wouldn't have fared well in the nationals of 2005.

The chapter will remain incomplete if I do not mention the great Tantida.I have been fortunate enough to play once as his partner & twice as his opponent. Alas, seeing no improvement in our quality, he donated his house to Khokan Kar(another great enterprenaur from shyamnagar) & moved to DumDum to become a neighbour of Robi Roy -so that he can discuss finer aspects of dummy play with him.His departure literally left us standing in the middle of the road with Harricanes in our hand--a commodity he sells in  chinabazar.